Timeline for Name of amateur who gave a new proof of the Ramanujan-Nagell theorem?
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Dec 13, 2017 at 17:45 | answer | added | Stopple | timeline score: 3 | |
Jun 6, 2010 at 18:03 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Well, I hope George Johnson was not bothered by the fact that I emailed him as well. Of course he said the same thing in his reply to me. I'm wondering, as a matter of general MO etiquette, whether the person who asked the question in the first place should be assumed to be the one to contact a suggested person. Otherwise the poor recipient may be barraged by a slew of email messages all asking the same thing. | |
Jun 6, 2010 at 5:01 | comment | added | bhwang | Having emailed George Johnson, he says that he does not know anything beyond what is said in the article. | |
Jun 5, 2010 at 9:07 | comment | added | Liran Rotem | I have no details about this story, but George Johnson has a homepage which includes his [contact information][2]. You might want to send him an e-mail. (This answer should have been a comment, but I'm unable to post comments just yet) [2]: sciwrite.org/glj/email.html | |
Jun 5, 2010 at 7:24 | comment | added | John Stillwell | Unfortunately, Mathematical Cranks does not contain the word "Nagell" (according to amazon's search inside the book), so I'm afraid the answer is not there. | |
Jun 5, 2010 at 7:05 | comment | added | Igor Pak | Johnson's article is based on the book "Mathematical cranks" by Underwood Dudley. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood_Dudley Does the book have the name you are looking for? Let me mention that Dudley was sued by one personality mentioned in the book. I remember reading Richard Posner's decision a few years back - it is beautifully worded... | |
Jun 5, 2010 at 4:03 | history | asked | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |